Cartons



S. PASJACK CARTONS Filed June 7,. 1954 N vENToR STE VE PASJA CK AT ORNEYUnited States Patent O CARTONS Steve Pasjack, Vancouver, BritishColumbia, Canada, as-

signor to Unipak Cartons Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaApplication June 7, 1954, Serial No. 434,915

1 Claim. (Cl. 2ML-185) My invention relates to improvements in cartons.

The particular object of the invention is to provide a carton fittedwith a concealed handle by which the carton and its contents can becarried.

Other objects are to provide that the handle can become accessible bythe simple means of slitting a portion of the binding strip which isused to seal the carton after it has been lled with the bottles, jars orother articles, and also to provide a carton which can be returned withthe handle undamaged and concealed for reuse in packing new articles andthen resealed by another adhesive binding strip.

A still further object is to provide a handle component which alsoserves as a dividing wall in the formation of the ller cells within thestructure.

Other objects will devolop as the specification proceeds.

Referring to the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the finished invention showing thehandle withdrawn to carton carrying position.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the carton blank.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a filler member.

Figure 4 is an elevational view of the handle member.

Figure 5 is a plan view of the assembled parts prior to the folding ofthe blank.

Figure 6 is a plan view of the completely finished carton in the knockdown state ready for sale and shipment to the user.

Figure 7 is a perspective View, part broken away, of the carton openedout ready for filling with merchandise.

Figure 8 is an enlarged sectional view showing the disposition of cartonand filler members as the handle member is being interleaved with saidfiller members.

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in each figure.

The numeral 1 indicates a carton blank which is creased to provide sidewalls 2 and 3, end walls 4 and 5, top end closures 7, top side closures8 and 9, bottom end closures 10 and bottom side closures 11. Each of thetop side closures are cut back to form recesses 14 and at the base ofone of these recesses a finger gap 15 is provided. The free end of thesite wall 3 is provided with an elongated tab 17 which is adapted to beunited with the free end of the end wall 5 by a pressure setting resinglue which is preferably used throughout the manufacturing of the cartonto knock down form. Glue is applied to the area 18 of the slide wall 3and a similarly positioned area of side wall 2.

The filler structure 20, see Figure 7, is formed of filler members 21,see Figure 3, and a handle member 22. The filler members 21 are stripsof material which are creased as at 24 to dene end folds 25 which areadapted to be bent only when the carton is opened into box form as inFigure 7. Each filler member is provided with a Vshaped notch or mouth27 having at its base a parallel sided gap or throat 28. The end foldsof the filler strips are coated with glue, so that when they are laiddown upon one of the areas 18 and the parts pressed together a properbond will be formed. The handle mem- 2,727,653 Patented Dec. 20, 1955ber 22 consists of a hand grip 29 and a wall portion, which portion isprovided with a plurality of vertical slots 31, each having an offsetside edge 32 which projects beyond the normal plane of the handlemember. The slots 31 are considerably longer than the vertical dimensionof the filler members 21.

In making up the carton, a number of filler members are laid inoverlapping arrangement upon the glued area 18 of the side wall 2, withtheir free ends extended to the right of Figure 5 and being creased asbefore described with their free ends slightly elevated above theirintermediate parts as shown in Figure 8. A handle member is laid downupon said filler members with the offset edges 32 of the slots 31 of thewall portion extending diagonally, s0 that as said handle portion ismoved to the left of Figures 5 and 8, each free end portion of thefiller members 21 will pass through one of said slots. When in theposition above described the upper end of the grip 29 will be slightlyabove the upper limit of the side wall 2, but may be aligned therewithby moving the handle members so that the upper edges of the verticalslots 31 will enter their respective notches 27 and be lodged in thegaps 28. To complete the knockdown carton it is now only necessary tofold the side wall 3 over onto the filler members and the end wall 5over onto the glued tab 17 and press them together to bind all the gluedparts to their counterparts.

The purchaser opens up the knock down carton to rectangular form andcloses its bottom portions and the carton is then filled and sealed witha glued tape 35.

When the purchaser of a filled carton wishes to use the grip 29, heslits the tape 35 and inserts a linger through the finger gap 15 andlifts said handle until the lower edges of the slots 31 engage the underedges of the filler members.

What I claim as my invention is:

A carton having sides and a bottom wall, a filler structure within thecarton, said ller structure having a plurality of iiller membersconnected at opposite ends to opposing side walls, and a slidablyextensible handle member adapted to be normally wholly enclosed in thecarton, said member being supported by the filler members and serving todefine article receiving spaces on both sides of the handle member andbetween the liller members, said filler members having medial slots ontheir upper edges, and said handle member having a plurality of verticalslots closed at their lower and upper ends, said filler membersextending through the vertical slots and said medial slots being adaptedto locate the handle member lengthwise of the ller members when saidhandle member is in normal position, the lower marginal edges of thevertical slots being adapted to bear upwardly onto the lower edges ofthe filler members to support the carton when being carried by thehandle members.

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